{"id":15789,"date":"2017-12-04T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15789"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:29:33","slug":"mainstream-media-immigration-ostrich-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/12\/04\/mainstream-media-immigration-ostrich-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mainstream Media, Immigration and the Ostrich Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"
Unfortunately, silly editorials are a standard feature of today\u2019s mainstream journalism<\/a>. However, the Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s editorial board seems to be probing the outer limits of absurdity. It recently published an opinion piece titled \u201cTrump\u2019s Crusade Against Immigrants Is an Attack on America.\u201d<\/p>\n Mainstream reporting on immigration issues tends to be based on the \u201costrich principle\u201d: tout the positive aspects of immigration. But when it comes to anything negative, stick your head firmly in the sand.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s exactly what the Post<\/em> editorial board does in this piece. In essence, its position is this: All immigrants in all circumstances<\/a> are good for the United States. Therefore, deporting immigrants is bad for America, because it\u2019s bad for the immigrants. If that logic seems a bit circular, that\u2019s because it is.<\/p>\n Apparently, in the bubble of rainbows and moonbeams in which the Post<\/em>\u2019s opinion editors live, all immigrants are well-meaning entrepreneurs who bring wealth<\/a>, culture and diversity to the communities in which they settle. They do those mythical \u201cjobs that Americans won\u2019t do,\u201d and \u201charvest America\u2019s crops, build its cities, care for its young and elderly, and found some of its most buoyant companies.\u201d (To hear the opinion editors at the Post<\/em> talk, one wonders what hard-working Americans do all day.)<\/p>\n That\u2019s why according to the editorial board, deporting any immigration violators<\/a> exacts a \u201chumanitarian price,\u201d in \u201cshattered communities and families.\u201d Of course, they either don\u2019t know, or don\u2019t care about, the hundreds of American communities and families that have been shattered by lax immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n They make no mention of:<\/p>\n It\u2019s true that you can\u2019t judge a population of millions of immigrants by just a few bad apples. But that\u2019s exactly the point, it is also entirely disingenuous to describe all immigration in laudatory terms while conveniently ignoring the demonstrably negative effects<\/a> of immigration that have made the news just within the last few weeks.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time that the Post<\/em> woke up and pulled its head out of the sand. President Trump is doing exactly what Americans expect their chief executive to do, enforcing our laws, rather than ignoring them. In other words, he\u2019s putting the interests of Americans first. Perhaps the Washington Post<\/em> should do the same. \n